WAITING ON GOD 4

Over the past few weeks, we've discussed Waiting On God;

From learning patience, to how to engage God when He is silent down, to embracing and leveraging Joy in waiting seasons.

It's been a lot to learn, unlearn and relearn.

I've also found myself having to use the wisdom in these words in the past few days.

Just before I announced the teaching, I had a dream where the Holy Spirit came to teach me exactly on this. I was taught as Word Alive.

So I'm just going to dish out everything in my note, as taught to me by the Lord.

We trust the Lord that it is timely and it touches whole and where it needs to.

The first thing I will speak on is this: 

1. Wait only where God has asked you to

What I see is so many at a bus stop and it feels like their bus is not coming but then I was taken to another bus stop and I saw a bus with their name on one of the seats. But they are elsewhere standing under the sun, waiting for a bus that will never come because that is not the route of their bus.

We've discussed the posture of waiting, we've also talked on the ways to wait, but the question is Where are you waiting? See, you cannot wait for the will of God outside of its enabling environment!

You cannot wait in Sokoto for what the Lord has arranged in Lagos.

Except Sokoto is part of God's design, you will get frustrated in waiting because nothing will happen.

And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; Acts 1:4 NKJV

Wait for the promise of the Father but look, the first instruction was where to wait! If they had gone elsewhere instead of Jerusalem, they'd have missed the promise. Not because the father did not promise or changed His mind but because they were at a wrong location.

You must know per time where you ought to be, the same as when Jesus sent the disciples to bring the colt. We all know the story of the triumphant entry;

and He said to them, “Go into the village opposite you; and as soon as you have entered it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Loose it and bring it. Mark 11:2 NKJV

If the disciples had gone to a city or anywhere other than this village, they'd have found nothing.

Look at Anna and Simeon in Luke 2,

All of their lives, they waited for The Promise.

The ultimate promise of God!

In fact, for Simeon, God expressly told him that he would not die until he sees the Lord.

The Bible says that he went to the temple on that faithful day as led.

He needed to be in the location of the promise.

Anna on the other hand had been stationed permanently in the temple.

That's where God asked her to wait for the promise.

So when they brought Jesus, she was right there.

Tonight, I will need us all to pause and ask ourselves; Am I waiting in the right place?

And for those that are not, I pray for you that the Lord redirects.

 

2. Wait only on what God has asked you to wait for

Some of us are waiting for our wishes. Lol

I do not say it is a bad thing to wish or desire o, but see, your wish will not override the will of the Lord. We are waiting for what God has not promised. And we believers have scriptures to back these things up.

"But God said Ask for anything in my name and I will do it"

"Bible says God will give me the desire of my heart"

Who am I to say the bible did not say? But pause,

“Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.” Psalms 37:4 NKJV

The message says to keep company with God.

What this scripture is saying is to spend time with God first. Familiarize yourself with Him.

Stay with God!

And oh, God does reveal to His children!

First, Keep company with God until your heart desires what His heart desires, and then the Lord will give you the desires of your heart.

So my question to you is this: What do you desire? Are you waiting for the Lord's will or the desires of your heart?

I have a sister that'd randomly make jokes that she is marrying a man with a British accent 😂

If anyone desires this, if it is not the will of God for you to marry a British accent man, your Ilorin accent husband will pass your front a hundred times and you won't know it is him.

Why? You are waiting for what God has not promised.

Take a step back tonight and ask yourself: This waiting season has stressed my head. This thing I'm waiting for, Is it the promise of God or my heart's desire?

As we move, I will need us to be taking out the key points. Write them down somewhere accessible. Make sure to go back to them. I see God opening eyes and giving redirection to many.

See, we cannot be bitter at God for not doing what He didn't promise in the first place.

If God did not promise it, it doesn't mean He withholds good things from you.

He has seen the future,

He knows what is ahead.

If that is not in His will, it is because it is not the best for your destiny at that time. So why wait for it? Why put yourself through such a traumatic experience?

Proverbs 13:12 says that Hope when deferred makes the heart sick

It is natural for your heart to break. For you to be tired when waiting for too long. So again, why put yourself through that traumatic experience.

The sad part is that when your heart gets sick, the believer's response is the word the Father has given. But this one that you have conjured your own desire as the will of God, which word will you use?

Situations respond to the word of God.

 

3. Waiting, outside of God

When the Holy Spirit told me this, I first didn't understand it. I searched online tire, and found nothing. So I went back to the person that gave the word to explain. You can be waiting in the right place for God's word, yet, you are not waiting in God.

You can be waiting on God but not in God.

Here's what the Lord said to me: I am the place you wait. I am your waiting position

Where are you standing? In Christ?

For some of us, it is that we take a word and run out. We follow the instructions of that particular word but we are not exactly living in the Lord completely. 

So you will say to yourself: But I went to where God said. I did everything. Yet!

The promise is NEVER greater than the God of the promise. Never above Him.

Isreal suffered this. They delayed their process because of this. 

Wait! And do so, In God.

 

4. Stop Waiting in Unbelief

I think these 2 words should not even coexist. 

By faith only do we receive. "I know God said it o. I believe God o, but I am not sure"

See, you must see the promise. You must see it with your eyes.

Abraham saw the promise ahead. You cannot afford to move in unbelief while waiting. It is distrust for God and a recipe to not receiving the promises of God.

Partial belief translates to unbelief by the way. It's either you believe or you don't.

Do you really trust God to do what He has promised? Especially considering everything you can see is not looking like it

Do you really trust God?

Answer that to yourself. Please make sure to answer.

 

5. Magnifying the promise more than the God of the promise

A lot of us are so engrossed in the promise that we stop focusing on God. We sit with you 5 minutes and it is God said this. I'm waiting for that. Your life now literally revolves around that promise, so much that you can't see any other thing that God is doing

You can't see God Himself.

Pause and live. Pause and live!

That's what the Lord says to tell you tonight.

It's okay. Just pause and live inside of now

Abraham did not get engrossed in the promise,

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Hebrews 11:8-10 NKJV

He never lost sight of God so what He got instead was the ultimate promise. A promise bigger than the land flowing with milk and honey.

He received something greater because he saw beyond what was shown.

A lot of us are living lives marked by bitterness, worry, anxiety, etc.

One minute you are full of Joy, the next minute you are completely down because you remembered the promise.

See, in this kingdom when we remember the promise, we shout Hallelujah. We jump in joy. You should not be remembering randomly and thrown into sadness.

Fix your gaze on God. The God of the promise is bigger than whatever promise you are frustrated about.

Live while waiting. Don't put your life on pause because of that one thing. Don't let everything around you revolve around that one thing so much that you can't see God. God is doing so many other things in your life while you are waiting. The disciples though gathered in the upper room waiting for the Spirit, were focused on God. They were not checking every minute:

E don come?

Where Him dey?

Him never arrive?

 

Face your front, please

Face your God!

Fix your gaze on Him!

Let the God of the promise be magnified more than the promise in your waiting season. That promise is just a means. In fact, it is only one of many means. Why have you built a monument around it?

For the people that own this particular word, please take heed to it.

Ask the Lord for help,

I hear You've been delayed because of it too.

The Father wants to open your eyes to so many other things.

He is waiting to tell you

But you can't listen. You can't hear because the only thing your ear itches for is news about that one promise.

Hmmmm

I pray for you tonight, that by the mercy of the Lord you are redirected. Your gaze is fixed on your maker.

Amen.

 

6. Stay in the leading of God while waiting

Don't run off with that one instruction when only thing you have with you is the destination.

What if Google Maps says to pass Ikorodu to Ibadan instead of Lagos Ibadan Express because the road is blocked?

What you have with you most times is a destination. Stay and allow God to lead you there Himself. He knows all the nooks and crannies, He sees beyond what you can see.

You cannot afford to not be led per time! What was the last thing God said about that promise? When was the last time He told you anything about it?

Examine

Know if you are still hearing His voice on it or if you are running without the instructions in between

“You led Your people like a flock By the hand of Moses and Aaron.” Psalms 77:20 NKJV

The shepherd never tells the sheep to just be going. He never says:

We are going to Zamfara o. That's our destination, be going we will meet.

In fact, it is the sheep that doesn't want to get to Zamfara that will leave the leading of the shepherd and walk alone. You will not make it to the junction before everything scatters. 

“Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go. Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.” Isaiah 48:17-18 NKJV

I teach you to profit. I teach you how to get results with the word I've given. We've somehow limited this scripture to material blessings. Finances!

I am God who teaches you to get the gain and profit in my word. How?

By leading you! But the condition is for us to follow. Listen and follow every instruction.

Even when it doesn't make sense. Just follow.

“And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people.” Exodus 13:21-22 NKJV

See how God leads

Actively!

Not one minute did He leave the children of God.

Morning, night!

Stay in the leading of God,

There is no bliss anywhere else.

Also, obey the leading of God,

Obey the seemingly tiny instructions in between, especially those ones that look like they can be ignored.

Allow God lead you, step by step.